ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

Sun Jan 13 20:48:56 UTC 2008

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>> I would be much happier creating a torrent server at the data center 
>> level that customers could seed/upload from rather than doing it over 
>> the last mile.   I don't see this working from a legal standpoint though.
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> Why not?  There's plenty of perfectly legal P2P content out there.

Hum... maybe there is an idea here.

I believe the bittorrent protocol rewards uploading users with faster 
downloading.   Moving the upload content to a more appropriate point on 
the network (a central torrent server) breaks this model.   How would a 
client get faster download speeds based on the uploads they made to a 
central server?    To solve the inevitable legal issues there would also 
need to be a way to track how content ended up on the server as well.   
Are there any torrent clients that do this?

Mark